Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 190
They were walking and driving here and there from the sea to the land at the, spot where the river terminates.
Who acts: people, river · What happens: walk, drive, spot, terminate · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walking | aux |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 driving | cc |
| 5 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walking | conj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 driving | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 there | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 here | conj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driving | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walking | obl |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 spot | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spot | det |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spot | punct |
| 18 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walking | advcl |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 terminates | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 terminates | nsubj |
| 22 | terminates | terminate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spot | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | people | to the land result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to land=Result | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | people not said here | the sea; here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | spot | infinitive | people not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | terminate | present | the river | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/71/190/